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Saying that The Bible and a spiderman Comic are the same thing begs the question and also commits the Undistributed Middle Fallacy. To phrase your comment/argument another way:

Begging the Question:

Person 1. the Bible is just like a fairy tale, like spiderman or santa or the tooth fairy

Person 2. Why is that?

Person 1. because the Bible is a fairy tale

Person one has already assumed that that Bible is false in his first statement before he even concludes and person 1's only support for his concluding statement, "The Bible is a fairy tale", is "The Bible is just like a fairy tale". it doesn't hold up to logical scrutiny.

Undistributed middle fallacy:
1. The Bible has fantastical elements
2. spiderman comics have fantastical elements
3. therefor, the Bible is a Spiderman Comic (or just like a Spiderman Comic)

to put it in another context:

All students carry backpacks.

My grandfather carries a backpack.

Therefore, my grandfather is a student.

or

All Zs are Bs

Y is a B

Therefore, Y is a Z

Not trying to be rude or come off as condescending, but i see this WAAAAYY to much on r/atheism as well as in my conversations with Atheists without any attempt for correction (i am a Christian Exclusivist)

i agree, using the Bible as proof of Gods existence is ridiculous. Its actually come to a point where us Christians actually have to 'evangelize' to other Christians because they believe so much garbage like "the bible proves that God exists". its pretty bad.

That's not even correct use of the fallacy. It's an attack on the burden of proof, the Bible can only claim evidence of God through its book, just as anyone can claim anything absurd through any other book. The Koran is as good of evidence for Islam's God as the Bible is for the Christian God, as a comic-book is for the evidence of Spiderman.

Now, if someone were to legitimately argue that Spiderman is real based on a book, and if we lived in a world where we in fact KNEW god existed because of the Bible, than yes, this would be a logical fallacy.

Dammit, ya know what, I used to be into apologetics when I was a believer. I will defend Spiderman's existence like a good believer.

Obviously, Spiderman DOES exist. There are a plethora of comics to believe it. In fact, it's pretty clear that Spiderman is decent and likes a lot of good thanks - to deny Spiderman's existence is basically to side with the likes of Dr. Octopus and the Green Goblin.

peter 2:25-29 and spiderman hath made a web to hold the jewelry thieves until the police arrive. and spiderman doth swing away into the night. and it was good. Then the spidey sense tingled and then spiderman defeated the hobgoblin. and it was good. this is the word of spiderman, thanks be to spiderman

This post: Proof that some atheists are retards. Are there really people who think that Christians believe the bible itself is proof of God? There might be some, but you are ignorant and naive if you believe that this is actually how Christians think.